Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gossiper Winchell admits his salary is $500 a week and 50% of syndicate receipts. He says he will continue with the Winchell Words, the Winchell gossip every Monday, which cause many to believe that Park Avenue sheetlet-snugglers will turn to the Mirror...
...favor of adopting a uniform minor "H" were pointed out by the committee in its report, which showed that all opinion appeared to be unanimous in favor of the change. This change, which has been steadily supported by the CRIMSON, will inevitably help minor sports in Harvard and in turn the Minor sports should be thankful that the Athletic Association is showing such an intelligent and sympathetic attitude towards their needs...
...renunciation of war is a "declaration" of "faith and idealism" which must be followed by "action." It must mean "all armament hereafter shall be used only for defense." But "we are still borne on the tide of competitive building. . . . Fear and suspicion . . . will never disappear until we can turn this tide toward actual reduction." He insisted on finding a "rational yardstick" for naval comparisons, and added: "Limitation upward is not our goal but actual reduction ... to lowered levels...
...airwise nation which General Mitchell considers important include lack of through transcontinental air lines, lack of transoceanic lines, the vulnerability of warships to planes ("battleships have become so top-heavy and useless that if they get a good crack below the waterline, they just turn over and sink of their own accord"), the excellent air targets which the aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga provide, the impossibility of protecting cities from air raids, the poverty of the Army and Navy in fighting planes...
...Paul Cuffee returned twelve slaves to West Africa, and their Liberia, founded 1822, was the first great movement. Bishop H. M. Turner, until Booker Washington silenced him in the '90s, advocated all U. S. Negroes to follow. Captain Harry Dean's call, issued at the turn of the Century, did not reach the race in a broadcast manner and was even less successful than the short-lived Black Star Line of Jamaica's Marcus ("Black Moses") Garvey, who was deported from the U. S. last year. Back-to-Africa movements, implying escape as the answer...